Example sentences of "it have be reduce to " in BNC.

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1 Add the sherry to the pan , and stir until it has been reduced to a glaze .
2 They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + .
3 The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme .
4 Five years later it had been reduced to £212,000 .
5 At the time of the Arab invasion in 639 the population has been estimated at between 20 and 30 million , but when Napoleon invaded the decaying Ottoman Egypt in 1798 it had been reduced to some two and a half million .
6 Er , it used to be those over eighty , but it 's been reduced to those over seventy five .
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